"A formação gerontológica do técnico em enfermagem: uma abordagem cultural"

Abstract

The brazilian nursing, in its large theorical-practical dimension, has been trying to dicuss the social-political context questions, which interfere in the health and education sectors, both the superior and thecnical levels. One of the challenges enforced nowadays in the demogrphic aging, which occur quickly and demand redefinitions of roles and actions to attend of to the ederly population. The study had as objective to understand the geronthologic formation of the nursing technician. The methodologic broaching choice for this study was made by qualitative methodology, based on theoretical pressuposing of construtivism, geriatrics, geronthology and cultural interpretation. Among various ways for apprehension of the study object, this chose the study of case, having as scenary a nursing thecnical course of an institution of professional education. The gained results allow to verify the deficiency of formation of nursing technician professionals with competence and able in the care of elderly population. This also emphasize that the human creature must understand the using symbols and meanings of lived experiences as a referencial mark to the promotion of transforming initiatives which correspond to the social reality.